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Bangladesh Police Kill Shiite Shrine Blast Chief Suspect
[AnNahar] Bangladesh police shot and killed a top bad boy who was the main suspect behind deadly kabooms at a Shiite shrine during late-night raids, officers said Thursday.Five faceless myrmidons from banned local Islamist outfit Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were also tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... during the raids carried out by police in Dhaka late Wednesday. Police accused the slain bad boy, a JMB commander who went by multiple aliases including "Albany", of hurling grenades into the capital's main Shiite shrine which was packed with worshippers last month, killing two and injuring dozens. The raids came as tensions ran high in Bangladesh following a spate of assassination'>assassinations and fears of mounting Islamist violence in the conservative country of 160 million. "Albany was injured in an encounter with police on Wednesday night. Later he was brought to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where a duty doctor declared him dead," Dhaka police front man Monirul Islam said at a briefing. "Albany threw five grenades at the crowd at Hossaini Dalan (Shiite shrine)," Islam added, without using a formal name for the bad boy. "He was also the main suspect in the murder of a police officer at Ashulia (outside Dhaka) and he slaughtered Khizir Khan, a Sufi leader, early this month." The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group grabbed credit for the October 24 shrine blasts and a series of other attacks including the killing of two foreigners weeks earlier. But the government has said IS has no presence in Bangladesh and instead accused homegrown bad boy groups, including JMB, and the Islamist-allied political opposition of trying to destabilize the country. Police suspect JMB has been trying to regroup in recent years after its then leaders were executed in 2007 over a series of blasts. The shrine attack further heightened the fears of minorities living in the mainly Muslim but officially secular state. While the blasts were believed to be the first attack on Shiites in Bangladesh, banned Islamist bad boy groups have killed more than a dozen Sufi Muslims and attacked Hindus and Christians in the last two years. The killing of four atheist bloggers and a publisher this year has also undermined government efforts to play down the threat posed by hardliners, experts said. The country has been plagued by unrest in the last three years, and experts have warned that a long-running political crisis has radicalized opponents of the government. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-27 |
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